As Sleaford Mods detail their next album Key Markets, The Parrots announce their debut UK EP Weed for The Parrots, and October Drift release their captivating second single ‘You Are, You Are’, all three artists feature online in Q Magazine‘s Five To Hear This Week feature this week.
This years Great Escape festival in Brighton is going to be pretty massive, so accordingly, Division PR bands will be out in force. Here’s a schedule of our bands playing. There’s a couple of secret shows too, so hit us up for details!
Thursday – 14th May
Cut Ribbons – PATTERNS – UPSTAIRS @ 3:30pm – 4:00pm
The Away Days – MESMERIST @ 5pm – 5.30pm
Friday – 15th May
Cut Ribbons – THE HOPE AND RUIN @ 2:30pm – 3:00pm
Kagoule – FIDDLERS OUTDOOR STAGE @ 7pm – 7.30pm
Kevin Devine – UNITARIAN CHURCH @ 8:15pm – 8:45pm
Joyce Manor – THE HUB @ 8:30pm – 9:00pm
Demob Happy – BRIGHTON’S FINEST STAGE @ LATEST MUSIC BAR @ 9.00pm – 10.30pm *Alternative Escape – free entry*
Saturday – 16th May
Demob Happy – REPUBLIC OF MUSIC STAGE @ BOUTIQUE BRIGHTON @ 2pm – 2.30pm *Alternative Escape – free entry*
Animal House – BLEACH @ 2.55pm – 3.15pm *Alternative Escape – free entry*
Fist City – THE BASEMENT @ 3 – 3.30pm
Demob Happy – JACK DANIELS STAGE @ PATTERNS – 7.30pm – 8pm
Fist City – THE HUB @ 7:30pm – 8:00pm
Kagoule – PAGANINI BALLROOM, THE OLD SHIP HOTEL @ 10:30pm -11:00pm
Demob Happy – VICE @ THE JOKER @ 11pm *Alternative Escape – free entry*
Set to play in excess of 7 shows over the weekend, Brighton’s own Demob Happy are tipped today in DIY’s Top Ten Acts To See At The Great Escape.
Danish post-punk’s Shiny Darkly have released one of the most unforgettable, most provocative videos of the year. Filmed in a Copenhagen sex club, their Animal Fate video is streaming now on Noisey
As Seattle indie-punks Chastity Belt release their new album Time To Go Home in the UK, they’ve unveiled a new video, along with their hilarious Guide to Touring on the Guardian. They’ve also announced their first ever UK tour for this October.
Madrid garage trio The Parrots have announced that their debut UK EP ‘Weed For The Parrots’ will be released via Luv Luv Luv Records on Monday June 22nd.
Diego García, Alex de Lucas and Larry Balboa may only have a change of cheap moncler clothes and pockets full of tobacco, but they also have a quest to rock your town with smiles on their faces, and this debut EP should be a perfect introduction into what fun The Parrots will be bringing to your life in the near future.
“The EP is about traveling to play our next show with empty pockets and a will to play our music. Each night that we arrive to a new city we ask everyone in the audience to donate a little weed to get us by. The songs were written at a time when alcohol and weed were present every day,” says the band “As a result, life was confusing and kind of out of control, followed by terrible hangovers surrounded by dirt, drinking sangria and eating Chinese noodles. Things are still getting crazier every day but now we deal with this stuff way better and have lots of fun.”
The six track EP kicks off with the short, fear-ridden, subway meltdown of ‘Terror’, followed by the melodic auto-destructive relationship-buster, ‘White Fang’, and the life embracing, barfly drunk anthem, ‘To The People Who Showed Me Their Love While I Was Here’. Their ode to The Almighty Defenders in their cover of ‘All My Loving’ then sees the band in pure party drive before ‘I’m Not Alone’ tackles a hefty dose of depression, leaving the hungover crackle of ‘Wild’ to end the EP, that would not sound out of place around an open fire accompanied by a bottle of bourbon. It’s a 15 minute trip fuelled by fuzzed-out reverbed guitars and garage beats, driven by analogue bass tones and a love for classic nuggets.
‘Weed for the Parrots’ will be available via Luv luv Luv Records on limited edition 10” vinyl and digital download on June 22nd. Pre-order yours now from here.
The Parrots will be back in the UK this May to play the following shows:
24th May – Manchester @Fuel Cafe
25th May – Leeds @Gold Sounds
26th May – Brighton @ Green Door Store
27th May – London @93 Feet East
As premiered on NME.
Sleaford Mods announce new album ‘Key Markets’ for release on July 10th via Harbinger Sound. Stream new track ‘No Ones Bothered‘.
“Key Markets was a large supermarket bang in the centre of Grantham from the early 1970’s up until around 1980,” explains Jason Williamson. “My mum would take me there and I’d always have a large coke in a plastic orange cup surrounded by varnished wood trimmings and big lamp shades with flowers on them. Beige bricks with bright yellow points of sale and large black foam letters surrounded you and this is why we called the album ‘Key Markets’. It’s the continuation of the day to day and how we see it, the un-incredible landscape.”
“The album was recorded in various periods between summer 2014 through to October of that year. We worked fast as we normally do, the method was the same as the other albums and like the other two, the sound has naturally moved itself along. ‘Key Markets’ is in places quite abstract but it still deals heavily with the disorientation of modern existence. It still touches on character assassination, the delusion of grandeur and the pointlessness of government politics. It’s a classic. Fuck em.”
The duo have released a stream of a new track from the album today called ‘No One’s Bothered’, “partly a comment on the ongoing car crash that is human behaviour under Capitalism, a fading sense of any connection or unified relationship with each other. Alienation is almost accepted,” says Williamson. “Musically it reminds me of those early Meteors records, the more stripped version of Psychobilly that was happening around 81/82.”
Seattle’s Chastity Belt lead the Guardian‘s Indie Playlist with their latest cut, ‘Drones’. Listen here.
Set to descend upon Camden Town on May 30th, Camden Rocks Festival lead’s Time Out‘s London Festival Guide today.
